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Dr. Eli (Eliezer) Somer is an Israeli Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa (http://sw2.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/), School of Social Work (http://sw2.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/).  He is the former President of both the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD (http://www.estd.org/home-2/), 2009-2011) and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD (http://www.isst-d.org/), 2005-2006). Dr. Somer is the founder and a scientific advisor of TDIL – Trauma and Dissociation Israel, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse.Dr. Somer was born in Israel, a son of Holocaust survivors. He graduated high school at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem in 1969. He served at the IDF in the War of Attrition as a tank crewman, and in the Yom Kippur War as a tank Commander. Somer served for many years as a reservist combat Mental Health Officer at the Medical Corps of the Israel Defence Forces specialising in combat st